15th Osaka Asian Film Festival – Call for Entry 2020

The Osaka Asian Film Festival is now accepting films until December 2nd, 2019. Here you can find more information about their call for entry.About the festival:
The Osaka Asian Film Festival aims to facilitate human resources development and exchange, to invigorate the Osaka economy, and to increase the city’s appeal, through providing opportunities to watch excellent Asian films, supporting filmmaking in Osaka and attracting filmmakers from Asian countries and regions to Osaka. Promoting Osaka worldwide as a gateway city for Asian films, and engaging with many people from the fields of culture, art, education, tourism and business, from Osaka and all of Asia, OAFF works as an open platform to contribute to the development of Osaka and cinema.

General Rules:
– The festival is accepting both Feature (>60 minutes) and Short Features (< 60 minutes).
– Films must be produced in Asian countries and regions or be Asia-related.
– For Feature films they must not have been screened publicly in Japan, including theater and/or TV prior to March 15th, 2020. They also must be completed after October 1st, 2018.
– For Short Feature films must not have been screened publicity in OSAKA, including theater and/or TV, prior to March 17th, 2019.
– Each film will be screened in its original language version with both English and Japanese subtitles. Films in English will be screened with Japanese subtitles. The festival will bear the cost of producing Japanese subtitles. If a film has a distributor in Japan the distributor must provide the Japanese subtitles.
– The festival gives Cash Awards– Submission Fee: FREE– Deadline: December 2nd, 2019